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* In Pokemon, the ability Wonder Guard causes a Pokemon to take no damage from attacks that it is not normally weak to from its typing. Spiritomb and Sableye have no weaknesses, so if they obtain Wonder Guard they cannot be hit by ordinary attacks. (However, Sableye can only legitimately get Wonder Guard in the third generation; in later games they can only obtain the ability by cheating, since Skill Swap, used to swap Abilities between two Pokemon, deliberately cannot swap Wonder Guard.)
** In Black and White, the ability Sturdy causes a Pokemon to survive any attack with at least 1 HP if it is at full health. The Pokemon Shedinja has a maximum of 1 HP, therefore if it obtains Sturdy, which it can do legitimately, it cannot be KOed by ordinary attacks.
* In ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', Estelle has a spell that temporarily grants Made Of Diamond status. She also has an ability that, when equipped, has a chance of making all buffs, including this one, last until the end of battle. This combo (removed from the [[
* [[Quake]] offered you the occasional Pentagram of Protection, which made you invulnerable for 60 seconds. In later games, they changed it to the shield of protection as the game Jumped the Shark, so they wouldn't be seen as offering not just Witchcraft, but Witchcraft-as-Good-Thing, to the kiddies.
* The Beast from ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]] 2''. To the extent that it can survive a direct hit from a nuclear missile.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** The Materials are revealed to have kept the regenerative abilities of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Darkness of the Book of Darkness]], able to reconstruct their physical forms out of nothing given enough time.
** [[Sealed Evil in a Can|The Unbreakable Darkness]] meanwhile, is as unbreakable as her name suggests. She's both regenerative ''and'' is made of diamond. To give an idea, [[Idiot Hero|Amita]] manages to blast her at point blank range with a [[Desperation Attack]] that, according to the Wolkenritter, exceeded the [[Beam Spam|Triple]] [[Wave Motion Gun|Breaker]] attack used near the end of ''A's'' to completely destroy the physical body of the [[Eldritch Abomination|Darkness of the Book of Darkness]]. It didn't even put a scratch on her, despite the fact that she was at around 10% of her full strength. In the end, the were only able to stop her by {{spoiler|getting her to keep her destructive impulses in check. And even that required a lot of help from the Materials, who were revealed to have once been a part of the same whole with her}}.
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